Adjusting means for skylights, &amp;c.



C. 0. WHITNELL.

ADJUSTING MEANS FOR SKYLIGHTS, &c.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 23.19l6.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

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C. 0. -WHITNELLl ADJUSTING MEANS FOR SKYLI GHTS, Gac.

APPLlcATxoN FILED om. 23` 191s.

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CHARLES 0. WHITNELL, OF KING-SLEY, IOWA.

ADJ' USTING MEANS FOR SKYLIGHTS, &C.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

Continuation in part of application Serial No. 97,369, filed May 13,1916. This application filed. October 23, 1916. Serial No. 127,287.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. Wrirr- NELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Kingsley, in the county of Plymouth and State ofIowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjusting Means forSkylights, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to means for raising and supportingskylights and the like; and it contemplates the provision of improvedmeans for the purpose, designed more especially for use in the skylightstructure constituting the subject of my contemporary application iiledMay 13, 1916, Serial Number 97 ,369, of which this application is, inpart, a continuation.

The present invention in all of its details will be fully understoodfrom the following description and claim when the same are read inconnection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of thisspecification, in which:

Figure 1, is a transverse section showing the application of oneembodiment of my invention and also showing the skylight in closedposition.

Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to Fig. 1, and showing the skylightsupported in its open position.

Fig. 3 is a view like Fig. 1 of a modification.

Fig. 4 is a plan of the said modification.

The illustrated embodiment of my invention in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises abase in which is an opening surrounded by an upstanding rectangularliange 2, and hinged at et to said flange 2 is a skylight 1, that is`designed to be swung upwardly and downwardly on the flange 2 of thebase. The said skylight 1 in general may be of any suitableconstruction. In accordance with my present invention it is equippedwith a longitudinal central bar 16. The said bar 16 is spaced from theskylight and is provided with arms at its end through the medium ofwhich it is fiXedly connected with the skylight. Receiving and movableon the said bar is the eye 18 of a vertically swinging arm 17. The saidarm 17 is carried at one end of a horizontal rock-shaft 10 which isjournaled in a bearing 19 on the base flange 2, and at its opposite endthe said shaft merges into an arm 20 which, in turn, termina-tes in ahandle 21. By virtue of this construction, it will be manifest thatwhen'the parts are relatively arranged as shown .in Fig. 2, the arm 17will serve to maintain the swinging section or skylight in. raisedposition and without liability of said Section casually falling. This isdue to the fact that the arm 17 brings np against the arm of the bar 16remote from the hinge as clearly shown in Fig. 2. When, however, thehandle 21 is pressed toward the right in Fig. 2, the swinging section orskylight will be lowered to its closed position and will be controlledincidental to the downward movement so as to preclude the possibility ofbreakage. It will also be manifest that when the swinging section orskylight is in its closed position and it is desired to open the same,for Ventilating purposes, it is simply necessary to apply suiiicienteffort to swing the handle 21 in Fig. 2 toward the left, whereupon theswinging section will be raised to and secured in position shown in saidfigure.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the skylight or swingingsection la is equipped with two bars 16a. The said bars 16a are spacedfrom, and fixedly connected through end arms to the skylight, and aredisposed in eyes 18aon the vertically swinging arms 17l of a horizontalrock-shaft 10a. The said rock-shaft is journaled in bearings 19a on theupstanding iiaiige 2a of the base, and is equipped with a handle 20a.The operation of this construction is similar to the construction shownin Figs. 1 and 2 and need not, therefore be reiterated.

It will be noted from the foregoing that in each of the embodiments ofmy invention, the means employed for moving the skylight is extremelysimple and inexpensive, and yet when the skylight of swinging section isadjusted to its raised position, there is no liability of the skylightor section tending-to move downwardly until the adjusting means isproperly manipulated.

It will also be noted that in both embodiments of my invention thepermanent connection of the eye on the arm of the rockshaft to the baron the skylight permits of the adjusting means being utilized to holdthe skylight in closed position.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is:

The herein described skylight construction comprising a base trainehailingY an opening and an upstandingflange surrounding said opening, askylight hinged at one end 'to the outer side of said base flangeand@constructed and arranged to Close over the same, ahorizontally-,disposed bearing xed to the inner Side of the base flangeand a1*- ranged parallel Itofth'e hinge 0f the -Skylight,f a bai'extending longitudinally of andpar-- allel to and spaced from theskylight and havingrend arms fixed theretoysaidbar beingldisp'osed atrightf-angles to'said hingev andbearing, andf-a horizontal-rockfshatjournaled'inaid-floearin'gand having an angularly-dieposed fhandle and also having an angularly-disposed arm extending in an.oppositeldireotion;to the handle and on the end of Which is an" eyepermanently oonneotedWith-,and:receiving and movable on the bar of thekylight; the latter arnibeing arrangedto bring up against .that arm ofthe bar remote from the hinge and Securely maintain the skylightinraisedpositlon. f

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